Buried: PITTSBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH located in the Town of Pittsboro, Center Township on the southeast corner of West Street, US 64, and Fayetteville Street, one block west of Courthouse in Chatham County, NC.

Sheriff Blair is reported by his family to be the first person to use plaster mold of tire impressions in North Carolina to help solve a murder in Durham where the body was thrown in the river at Avent's Ferry Bridge in Chatham County.

Deputy John Burns is credited with saving Sherrif Blair's life. Deputy Burns shot a man, who had a gun pointed "ready to shoot" Sheriff Blair.

When the coal mine exploded in southern Chatham County, sherif Blair and his deputies spent long hours helping.

Lacy Johnson was the only full time deputy for Sheriff Blair.

Military Experience

Other Offices

Sherff Blair was a farmer, dairy famer, merchant, and building contractor.

Sheriff Blair built the Blair Hotel in the Courthouse Circle in 1917, where he and his family lived and ran the hotel.